Klemen Kovač (Author), Alberto Nocera (Author), Andrea Damascelli (Author), Janez Bonča (Author), Mona Berciu (Author)

Abstract

We use density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and variational exact diagonalization (VED) to calculate the single-electron removal spectral weight for the Hubbard-Holstein model at low electron densities. Tuning the strength of the electron-phonon coupling and of the Hubbard repulsion allows us to contrast the results for a liquid of polarons versus a liquid of bipolarons. The former shows spectral weight up to the Fermi energy, as expected for a metal. The latter has a gap in its spectral weight, set by the bipolaron binding energy, although this is also a (strongly correlated) metal. This difference suggests that angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy could be used to identify liquids of pre-formed pairs. Furthermore, we show that the one-dimensional liquid of incoherent bipolarons is well approximated by a“Bose sea” of bosons that are hard-core in momentum space, occupying the momenta inside the Fermi sea but otherwise noninteracting. This new proposal for a strongly correlated many-body wave function opens the way for studying various other properties of incoherent (nonsuperconducting) liquids of preformed pairs in any dimension.

Keywords

fizika kondenzirane snovi;močno korelirani elektroni;condensed matter physics;strongly correlated electrons;

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Language: English
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Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UL FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
UDC: 538.9
COBISS: 228038147 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 0031-9007
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary keywords: fizika kondenzirane snovi;močno korelirani elektroni;
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: str. 096502-1-096502-8
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ134
Issue: ǂiss. ǂ9
Chronology: 2025
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.096502
ID: 26017354